On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13:31PM +0530, Madhuri Venkatesh wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted an opinion on the most xen-compatible linux distro.
>
> Im embarking on a 4 month project with xen which involves the following
> objectives:
> 1.>Creating a tool with GUI that allows
> a)starting,stopping restarting domUs
> b)maintaining a status log of domUs
> c)migration of dom Us
> d) provides status info about domUs
Well that sounds very much like virt-manager which is already
available, not sure it's really useful to rebuild the same thing over.
> 2.>Monitoring and Analyzing network usage of domUs using NS2
> 3.>Testing network protocols on the domUs using NS2 in Real time.
>
> I will need to use Xen-api ,which needs xen3.2 or higher...Fedora 8(my
> current dom0)comes with xen3.1 and i ran into "dependency hell" trying to do
> a yum update.
Well, Xen-api is not very lively as you can see from the archives of
this mailing-list, I wonder about the reason behind your choice, why not
use for example libvirt.
> I want to select a suitable OS for the dom0...ive heard that CentOS and
> Ubuntu Intrepid are good,i wanted an opinion on which will be the most
> suitable development environment to achieve these goals.Please help.
> Thanks
You should be able to find libvirt in CentOS/RHEL/Fedora or Ubuntu,
as was pointed before it's mostly a matter of Xen and kernel version
you want to address.
Daniel
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